"It's a girl's word against a guy's, and the girl always wins, and then the guy's life is fucked forever," said Marcus. Marcus's girlfriend of eight years had recently left him for someone else. While they were on the "break" that became permanent, Marcus would drive by her house to confirm what he already knew. Her now-boyfriend's car would arrive around seven p.m. and would still be there at two a.m. Marcus would go home to bed at that point - or home to pace around chain smoking on his terrace while calling my roommate to complain manically over the phone.